Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.

Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.

People know what they want because they know what other people want.

The usual reproach against the essay, that it is fragmentary and random, itself assumes the givenness of totality and suggests that man is in control of this totality. The desire of the essay, though, is not to filter the eternal out of the transitory; it wants, rather, to make the transitory eternal.

Love is the ability to discover similarities in the dis-similar. The audience has a right not to be fooled - even if it insists on being fooled.

Dissonance is the truth about harmony.

Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction.